DBMS > Adabas vs. GeoSpock vs. OrientDB vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. GeoSpock vs. OrientDB vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments info

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Widely used in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.13
Rank	#72	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#275	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	4.14
Rank	#71	Overall
	#12	Document stores
	#4	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Score	123.03
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.softwareag.com/corporate/products/adabas_natural/adabas/default.html

geospock.com

orientdb.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.geospock.com/Content/Home.htm

orientdb.org/docs/3.0.x

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Software AG

GeoSpock

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1971

2010

2000

Current release

2.0, September 2019

3.0.31, May 2020

3.32.0 (May 22, 2020), May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

Apache version 2

Open Source info

Public Domain

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free info

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API info

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JDBC

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC info

inofficial driver
ODBC info

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

in Natural

Java, Javascript

Triggers

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Master-master replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts info

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts info

Access control

only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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